Olamide Bola, left, and Ema Rennie, right, were interviewed by “School’s Out” host Dr. Jeffrey Demas on November 12 at the WOCC studio on the campus of Otterbein University.
The fall 2014 edition of School’s Out features two of Westerville Schools’ brightest students – Olamide Bola and Ema Rennie. Bola is one of more than 1,600 Black American high school seniors designated by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation as a Semifinalist in the annual National Achievement Scholarship Program. She is a senior at Westerville North, has a 3.7 GPA, and volunteers at the Women’s Fund and The Ohio State University Medical Center. She is accompanied on the program by Kimberly Swensen, an AP Language Arts teacher and mentor.
Rennie, a 7th grader at Genoa Middle School, is also featured on the program. She received a $500 scholarship as the winner of Ohio’s Nicholas Green Distinguished Student Award. Rennie is an avid reader, takes advanced placement courses, and is accompanied on the program by Debbie Pellington, the gifted students’ facilitator for Genoa and Heritage Middle Schools.
The show can be watched online at Otterbein.tv, under the School’s Out tab. It can also be viewed on Time Warner cable in Westerville on channel 96-7. U-verse subscribers can watch it on channel 99 by surfing through the menu.